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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1904
Page
1
A New York Weekly piece muses on a hostess who berates her own cooking to seek flattery. She frets over sponge cake and cream pies, blaming cooks and yeasts while guests pretend satisfaction. The tale notes how praise sweetens vanity and disturbs honest appetite at table.
Charles Petty of South Carolina argues against health food dictates and defends traditional foods. He recalls Senator Pettus of Alabama as judge of gravies and reflects on memories of ham gravy turkey gravy and Southern cooking from childhood. He urges loyalty to beloved gravies over modern dietary bans.
In Henry Thompson’s World’s Work excerpt the Ottoman court is blamed for repression and intrigue. Cases include Sheikh Obehruliah’s quick Mecca death from cholera after a Sultanian visit and Mithad Pasha’s treason trial and exile. Rumors describe a shadowed palace network feared by Turks and foreigners alike.
A New York World report recounts Captain Brady Nes at the British lark Antigua near Richards Street Brooklyn catching twenty seven sharks with a single hook after a voyage from Buenos Ayres. The caught sharks included twenty six young toothless ones six inches long all alive with white stomachs. The crew weighed a chunk of work as big as a head, and the cook refused to cook the sharks so they were thrown overboard with beef added to stew for the crew.
Betetle Teel superintendent reports pupil numbers fell to about 2,000 last year and Tindthor school work declined from 84 in 1877 to around 50. Indians’ maiden cultivation shown up 20 percent. Citizens' dress and other social data indicate increases, while the census notes rising speaking groups and declining dwelling houses from 1,000 to 900.
In a St. Louis Mirror feature Ernest McGaffey presents a provocative scene quoting a prince who denounces “Soulless hordes of the rooting swine” as he observes a crowd. The passage critiques greed and vulgar excess, likening society’s masses to rotting miscreants amid satire.
The piece recalls Cousin Jim visiting the rural farm, relishing simple pleasures, and dreaming of boyhood days. He dies peacefully in the parlor as Silas and Mandy greet the city relatives, with Jim having given all to those who loved him in the end.
A fragmentary passage recounts an Indian fable about the origin of tobacco corn and wheat, with a mythic goddess and gifts of crops after twelve moons. The page also includes moral maxims, a short obituary notice, and scattered local notices from Richmond with names, ages, and brief incidents.
In Pittsburg Pennsylvan ia a catastrophic methane explosion at the Hardwick mine trapped and killed workers. Rescue efforts by Selwin Taylor James McCann and Henry Baker saved some but many perished. The disaster prompted inquiries into gas pockets and blast causes.
Fragmented items detail Green's Eagle winning the River Cup in a Shrewsbury heat, with fifteen miles run. Mentions new entrances for Polo Gram venues, a long lease on Hungington Avenue grounds, and Whos who like Joe Gaus and Willie Fitzgerald in lightweight boxing and golf favorites. President James A. Hart announces Chicago National League season opening on April 14.
Whitaker Wright, promoter of the London and Globe Financial Corporation, collapsed and died in the court after being convicted of fraud and sentenced to seven years penal servitude. The case linked to the Ton-Nou and Globe crash, with widespread bankruptcies and investor losses across Britain and the United States.
Jury returns indictments holding Carter Hochurlson Chicago mayor Qhivis proprietor George Willis building commissioner Edward Laughin and others to await Grand Jury action. Warrants prepared and police dispatched as coroner directs custody after testimony. Also brief items: Montevideo government forces defeat Saralva rebels near Brazil. Freeman Cohen dead. burglars flee after failed safe break. officers duel in Chem Uill4. Belimbert ary killed.
The article notes San Doningo joining a world congress in St Louis next fall tied to the Louisiana Purchase exposition. It mentions preparations for a model of the Assonan Dam on the Nile, a plaster cast exhibit by the National Museum, and royal and noble attendance including King Monet and Comte Fernan Geo at the event.
Lmian Breen aged unknown committed suicide in Paterson by swallowing la rge dose of caustic acid before cheering onlookers. She collapsed, died at General Hospital. Separate incident: Augustus Cookson, found wandering without memory, recalled purchasing a railroad ticket in Philadelphia. A third case involves Giorgilo Eghireo and Paporo Castentanio in Melville, where a hatchet attack occurred and Eghireo fled but was captured by Police Chief Bullock.
The vehicles of Chaues TL Thayer, killed in the Westfield disaster on the Central Road of New Jersey in January last, sue the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Philadelphia and Reading Railway for 100000 dollars. Thayer was a former general agent for the United States Express Company in New York and Superintendent of the Western Division of the National Express Company. His salary was said to be in excess of a percent. An aged mother, son, and two daughters are his survivors.
He Sacks of Yonkers complained to New Brunswick police that his wife ran off with his brother in law Stephen Bake, taking their two children. The couple, later found in New Brunswick as Smith White, were arrested in Yonkers after Mrs. Sacks tried to draw his savings at a savings bank. The children were recovered and moved to Yonkers.
considerable flooding along the south branch of the Raritan River caused damage and a threatening bridge displacement near Rockafellow's mills Vleningtant as gorges form upstream. a grand jury in Salen County returns true bills against nineteen year old melsheck and others for various indictments. multiple crimes including a New Year's band incident near Vile line are discussed with pleas of not guilty. fever outbreaks plague Silonteester County and a new church bell is to be hung in Wenough. trolley questions resurface as the Pima Grove Bond of Trade plans action before summer. a man from Ventreton dies after a fall from a stairwell. another officer collapses from heart trouble. postmaster at Seeley faces removal. engine mishaps and a worker sustains a broken collarbone.
Paleontologists report a new genus seal lizard named thalattosaurus from Shasta County California fossils. The find suggests a shore creature that transitioned to a marine form, representing a new species, family, genus, and order with potential major scientific impact.
Goggin, a top Nashua Trust Company official and treasurer, is charged with embezzling between 80 000 and 100 000. The Nashua Trust Company faced examination by the State Bank Commissioners after the shortage was detected by directors who notified Concord. Depositors may be spared losses, and the bank may resume operations as investigators assess the affair while Nashua’s banking sector bears a heavy toll from prior closures.
The House passed the Army appropriation bill totaling about 77 million dollars after adopting amendments. A plan to consolidate War Department offices into a Military Secretary's Office was struck from the bill on a point of order. Additional items including a 400 thousand dollar Army General Hospital project and a submarine cable from Sitka to Fort Liscum were also dropped on procedural rulings. A resolution sought State Department carriage figures from the Secretary of State.
Dispatch from Windhoek German South West Africa reports German forces suffered heavy losses in unsuccessful efforts to relieve Okahatusjia. Five settler families were killed as Ereros threaten Windhoek. Windhoek garrison numbered 230 with two machine guns. A patrol at Hope Farm lost two officers and many men.
Justice Street upholds Welland Ontario court order sending James N. Abeel of New York City to the United States. Abeel faces forgery charges and has indicated willingness to return to New York to stand trial, with no further appeal unless he changes his mind.
Secretary Hitchcock suspends from the General Land Office as Charles A. M. Setierholtz faces charges of breach of trust in a recent investigation.
Myron Aldrich fourteen, Lowell Ellis thirteen, and William Venton fifteen were arrested at Las Vegins New Mexico and confessed to wrecking an extra Denver and Rio Grande freight train at Florence Colorado on January 10.
A Illinois Central train traveling from New Orleans to Chicago wrecked near Nashville Tennessee with multiple fatalities reported. The item follows with college notes and university appointments across several states including Michigan Ohio New York and Illinois.
Postmaster General Payne hosts President Roosevelt and Cabinet. Moody bids farewell to Root. Mayflower near Pangma to return home. Hay travels to Thomasville as guest of Colonel Payne. House seeks 300000 for rural free delivery starting March. Mosley inquiry finds IOC accounts correct. Moro fighting fatal for Lt Campbell Finke in Mindanao. Manila bankers advised to shift to American firms in war risk. Porto Rican House debates suspending five absent Federals. James H Causten to take new duties in San Juan. Luis Munoz Rivera returns to Porto Rico to cheering crowds. Hong Kong Bank manager accuses coercion by American officers in Manila.
A roundup notes extortion plea by Richard Carvel in New York, Acme Harvester at Peoria downsized, and strikes discussed by the Brotherhood of Painters in Indiana. Fire at the State School for Indigent Children in Owatonna. several suicides and homicides across the U.S. and Canada. revolvers distributed in Korea. politics and arbitration in Peru and Panama. a Pan-American wave of violence, disease, and labor unrest extends to Asia and Europe.
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